Ronald Reagan Frases famosas
“O contribuinte é o único cidadão que trabalha para o governo sem ter que prestar concurso.”
citado em "Frases Geniais" - Página 388, PAULO BUCHSBAUM, Ediouro Publicações, 2004, ISBN 8500015330, 9788500015335 - 440 páginas
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Brincando, ao se preparar para a gravação de um programa de TV, referindo-se à antiga União Soviética. A brincadeira gerou veementes protestos dos soviétivos (1984).
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Fonte: Do bestial ao genial: frases da política - Página 23, de Paulo Buchsbaum e André Buchsbaum - Editora Ediouro Publicações, 2006, ISBN 850002075X, 9788500020759
“Política é a segunda profissão mais antiga do mundo, muito semelhante à primeira, aliás.”
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
citado em "What They Said in 1978" - página 199, Alan F. Pater, Jason R. Pater - Monitor Book Company, 1979, ISBN 0917734025, 9780917734021
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“Na situação atual, governo não é a solução para nossos problemas. Governo é o problema”
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.
citado em "Ronald Reagan, a political biography" - página 288, Lee Edwards - Nordland Pub. International, 1980, ISBN 0913124478, 9780913124475 - 307 páginas
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Ronald Reagan frases e citações
“Todas as grandes mudanças na América começam à mesa de jantar.”
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Ronald Reagan: Volume 1 - Página 227, United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register - 1982
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Ronald Reagan ex-presidente dos EUA; citado em Do bestial ao genial: frases da política - página 131, Paulo Buchsbaum, André Buchsbaum, Ediouro, 2006, ISBN 850002075X, 9788500020759, 294 páginas
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“Senhor Gorbatchev: derrube este muro!”
Em discurso realizado em Berlim Ocidental, se referindo ao Muro de Berlim. (1987).
citado em Revista Veja - Especial Século 20 http://veja.abril.com.br/especiais/seculo20/vejaessa.html
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“Alguns dizem que o trabalho duro nunca matou ninguém. Mas pergunto: pra que arriscar?”
It's true hard work never killed anyone, but I figure, why take the chance?
citado em "Behind the scenes: in which the author talks about Ronald and Nancy Reagan... and himself" - página 13, Michael K. Deaver, Mickey Herskowitz - Morrow, 1987, ISBN 0688064043, 9780688064044 - 272 páginas
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Em entrevista ao '60 Minutes', programa jornalístico da CBS — 14 de dezembro de 1975
Ronald Reagan: Frases em inglês
Quoted as an attribution in Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (2013), p. 268
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1980s, First term of office (1981–1985), First Inaugural address (1981)
Contexto: Above all, we must realize that no arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. It is a weapon that we as Americans do have. Let that be understood by those who practice terrorism and prey upon their neighbors.
“Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.”
Remarks at the National Conference of the Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO (30 March 1981)) (source: http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1981/33081b.htm)
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)
Remarks at the Annual Salute to Congress Dinner http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1981/20481b.htm (4 February 1981)
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)
Variante: Thomas Jefferson once said, "We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works." And ever since he told me that I stopped worrying.
Contexto: Thomas Jefferson made a comment about the Presidency and age. He said that one should not worry about one's exact chronological age in reference to his ability to perform one's task. And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
“Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them.”
Variante: Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
Joke during his 1965 campaign for Governor of California, as quoted by Leo E. Litwak in The New York Times Magazine (14 November 1965), p. 174 http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50F13FC3B591B7A93C6A8178AD95F418685F9.
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
As quoted in The Reagan Wit (1981) by Bill Adler, p. 30
1960s
“We can't help everyone but everyone can help someone”
Sometimes attributed to Reagan, but the earliest citation attributes the saying to Dr Loretta Scott, 1,600 Quotes & Pieces of Wisdom That Just Might Help You Out When You're Stuck in a Moment https://books.google.com/books?id=quX0r9SkVj8C&pg=PA41&dq=%22we+can%27t+help+everyone%22+%22everyone+can+help+someone%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAGoVChMIk-28w6WkyAIVR5SICh3HOwON#v=onepage&q=%22we%20can't%20help%20everyone%22%20%22everyone%20can%20help%20someone%22&f=false (2003), p. 41
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“A people free to choose will always choose peace.”
Variante: A people free to choose will always choose peace
Fonte: The Quest for Peace, the Cause of Freedom
“Please tell me you're Republicans.”
Speaking to surgeons as he entered the operating room following a 1981 assassination attempt. http://www.rd.com/content/openContent.do?contentId=26804&pageIndex=1 To which Dr. Joseph Giordano replied, "We're all Republicans today." An alternative version has Reagan saying "Please tell me you're Republicans." (30 March 1981)
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)
Variante: I hope you're all Republican.
Fonte: Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches